How did Germans treat Russian POWs during World War 2?

Answer 1

Since Stalin never recognized the interventions of the Red Cross, Russian POWS had the worst conditions to put up with. While British, American, Canadian and other allied POWS were treated somewhat humanely by being able to receive some mail and care packages from abroad the Russians were regarded with contempt by the Nazis. My Father was one of those unfortunates. He recalled how the Nazis would throw a frozen beet over the barbed wire just to see the soldiers clamor over one another to try and get something to eat, sometimes crushing each other to death . In the movie "Bridge on the river Quai" we get a sense of the brutality of the Japanese against the British. There was some interaction between them. The Nazis had no use for the Russians and basically they were hemmed in behind wire and condemned to rot in the cold. In another movie starring Bruce Willis "Harts War" we catch but a small glimpse of the US service men heaving loaves of bread like footballs to the neighboring Russian POWS. For any suspected escape attempt or any other transgression big or small execution by shooting was rampant. The flip side of the coin was no better. After the war Stalin demanded and got what he wanted: All military and civilian people were to be shipped back back to the USSR. This was agreed to at the conference in Yalta by the "Big 3" Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. The British in particular for some reason exhibited a zealousness to complete that part of their mission. The US service men had more of a heart and actually hid and aided some former Russian POWS and helped save their lives. My father being one of the fortunate few. Subsequently more than 6 million people went to their death after WW2 by being branded as traitors and enemies of the people. Some were immediately executed while others were sentenced to the harsh winter of the GULAG were most perished in extreme conditions. While it is true the Nazis used Russian POWs as slave labour, Hitler had a virulent hatred for the Slavs. Soviet political advisers were regarded as dangerous and killed.

Answer 2

they either put them in concentration camps or murdered them!